John Trapp on Revelation 11:3
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Verſe 3. And I will give unto my two, &c.] ſc. Power to purge the Church, and to ſtand for the truth, all the while it was trodden under foot, Videſis Catalogum Teſtium veritatis ab Illyrico editum. Zuinglius recordeth, that Luther and he (both at one time, the one not knowing, nor hearing of the other) began to write againſt the Popes indulgences. And of Luther and Melancthon he writes thus, Diviſae his operae, ſed mens fuit unica, pavit Ore Lutherus oves, flore Melancthon apes.
Ʋnto my two Witneſſes] The whole ſucceſſion of faithfull Preachers, under the tyranny and rage of Antichriſt. Theſe are ſaid to be Two, that is, Few: or Two, that is enow, Deut. 17.6. Or, Two, in reference to thoſe noble Two's, Moſes and Aaron, Elijah and Eliſha, Zerubbabel and Jehoſhuah, in alluſion to whom theſe Witneſſes are here deſcribed.
Clothed in ſackcloth] As calling men to repentance: or as bewailing their blindenes: or as wanting better clothing.
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